Hektor

Hektor is nothing new. It debuted in 2002 and made a splash in the design world and on the web. For the uninitiated, Hektor is a portable spray-paint ‘printer’ that is able to create awesome, large scale vector art on walls. There is a beautiful tension between the low-tech medium and higher-tech line work, the latter of which is my reason for posting now. When recently thinking about how often the process can often be more visually compelling than the product I remembered the diagrams showing Hektor’s javascript-driven path. The lines demonstrate a computer’s logic and efficiency but remind me of some earlier 30gms posts on much the more organic art forms of sewing and drawing.

Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 1st of March 2007 Permalink Comment (0)